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The Great Climate Reevaluation – Affordability Trumped Environment in the 2026 Midterms
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-11-07T17:00:49-05:00Saturday, November 7th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, climate change, climate hush, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
Commercial real estate developers and business leaders routinely underwrite projects against ten, twenty, and thirty year horizons, knowing that capital expenditures must outlast political cycles. Yet every two years, Washington and the state capitals deliver a referendum on policy priorities that alters the regulatory risk ...
Australia’s High Court Puts Scope 3 GHG Emissions Back on the U.S. Business Risk Map
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-10-17T18:53:17-04:00Saturday, October 17th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, greenhouse gas emissions, Kaplow, MACH Energy, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Milieudefensie v. Shell, scope 3 GHG, Stuart Kaplow|
Many American businesses welcomed the SEC’s retreat from proposed Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions reporting. But an Australian High Court decision shows why value chain emissions remain a material legal risk. The court invalidated a coal mine expansion approval because the planning authority failed to ...
The Supreme Court’s Monsanto Decision – Why Businesses Far Beyond the Herbicide Industry Should Pay Attention
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-07-06T05:54:12-04:00Sunday, July 5th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Monsanto, Roundup, Stuart Kaplow, supremacy clause|
The U.S. Supreme Court's June 25, 2026, decision in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell is being reported in the mass media as another chapter in the long running Roundup mass tort litigation. That characterization misses the larger story about the Court amassing power for itself and ...
A More Efficacious Way to Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-01-31T15:24:54-05:00Saturday, January 31st, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Carbon Measures, E-ledger, GHG, GHG Protocol, greenhouse gas emissions, Karthik Ramanna, Maryland BEPS, net direct greenhouse gas, product level accounting, Robert S. Kaplan, scope 3|
As an environmental attorney who spends much of my time advising business owners, I have learned an immutable truth: markets work best when the rules are clear, fair, and grounded in reality. Environmental policy is no exception. Contrary to the prevailing narrative in popular media, ...
United States Sues Morgan Hill and Petaluma over All Electric Building Laws
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-01-24T20:32:59-05:00Saturday, January 24th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: all electric building, Energy Policy and Conservation Act, environmental lawyer Maryland, EPCA, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Morgan Hill, Petaluma, Stuart Kaplow|
On January 5, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the cities of Morgan Hill (Santa Clara County) and Petaluma (Sonoma County), California, challenging local ordinances that effectively ban natural gas infrastructure and gas powered appliances in new buildings. The complaint, docketed ...
Battery Storage: The New “Must Have” Amenity in Commercial Leases
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-11-10T06:19:55-05:00Saturday, November 8th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore environmental lawyer, battery storage, brown out, demand response, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, lithium ion, Maryland BEPS, peak shaving, solid state batteries, Stuart Kaplow|
Battery storage has become one of the hottest topics in commercial real estate leasing, a key amenity and, increasingly, a top tenant ask in Class A buildings. What was barely on the radar five years ago has now emerged as a central negotiating point between ...
From Boilerplate to Benchmarking: The New Era of Climate Smart Leases
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-10-25T16:56:05-04:00Saturday, October 25th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore environmental lawyer, BEPS, climate smart lease, environmental lawyer Maryland, green lease, Kaplow, lease, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Stuart Kaplow|
It would be convenient if this were only a prospective conversation about the leases you are about to sign. It isn’t. Tens of thousands of existing leases (many with long renewal terms) are for premises that are subject to greenhouse gas disclosure and reduction laws ...
All Electric Future Faces Legal Threat After Supreme Court Ruling
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-06-21T21:29:47-04:00Saturday, June 21st, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: California EV, Clean Air Act waiver, Diamond Alternative Energy, environmental attorney Maryland, EPA, Kaplow, LLC v EPA, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, Section 209, Stuart Kaplow|
In a pivotal environmental case with wide reaching implications, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a group of fuel producers have Article III standing to challenge the EPA’s approval of a waiver under the Clean Air Act permitting California regulations (.. adopted in 17 ...